Back in the 1890's G.K. Chesterton praised women for being FRUGAL. Nothing like the image of the silly, spendthrift suburban housewife from fifties sitcoms. One too many on both sides still associate with "trad values." Blondie was shallow, silly, and a gossip. But trying to change her into Dagwood was not an improvement.
https://ramalhete.substack.com/p/feminism
Back in the 1890's G.K. Chesterton praised women for being FRUGAL. Nothing like the image of the silly, spendthrift suburban housewife from fifties sitcoms. One too many on both sides still associate with "trad values." Blondie was shallow, silly, and a gossip. But trying to change her into Dagwood was not an improvement.
Sure, the 1950s were "modern times." The poison had already been administered in large doses.
No, to find what is really "trad," to use your choice of descriptors, we will have to go back further---or as I like to say, much more radically into the future.
Back in the 1890's G.K. Chesterton praised women for being FRUGAL. Nothing like the image of the silly, spendthrift suburban housewife from fifties sitcoms. One too many on both sides still associate with "trad values." Blondie was shallow, silly, and a gossip. But trying to change her into Dagwood was not an improvement.
https://ramalhete.substack.com/p/feminism
Sure, the 1950s were "modern times." The poison had already been administered in large doses.
No, to find what is really "trad," to use your choice of descriptors, we will have to go back further---or as I like to say, much more radically into the future.